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IS IT REALLY SUCH A BAD THING IF IRAN HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS?


[+] serious ballot by Kev24
created Thu Feb 01, 07
well apparently, jacques chirac has waivered once again (big surprise) and doesn't seem to think it would be so bad if they had one or two nuclear bombs.

from the ny times --


Chirac Strays From Assailing a Nuclear Iran
By ELAINE SCIOLINO and KATRIN BENNHOLD

PARIS, Jan. 31 — President Jacques Chirac said this week that if Iran had one or two nuclear weapons, it would not pose a big danger, and that if Iran were to launch a nuclear weapon against a country like Israel, it would lead to the immediate destruction of Tehran.

The remarks, made in an interview on Monday with The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune and Le Nouvel Observateur, a weekly magazine, were vastly different from stated French policy and what Mr. Chirac has often said.

On Tuesday, Mr. Chirac summoned the same journalists back to Élysée Palace to retract many of his remarks.

Mr. Chirac said repeatedly during the second interview that he had spoken casually and quickly the day before because he believed he had been talking about Iran off the record.

“I should rather have paid attention to what I was saying and understood that perhaps I was on the record,” he said.

The tape-recorded, on-the-record interview was conducted under an agreement that it would not be published until Thursday, when Le Nouvel Observateur appears on newsstands.

On Monday, Mr. Chirac began by describing as “very dangerous” Iran’s refusal to stop producing enriched uranium, which can be used to produce electricity or to make nuclear weapons.

Then he made his remarks about a nuclear-armed Iran.

“I would say that what is dangerous about this situation is not the fact of having a nuclear bomb,” he said. “Having one or perhaps a second bomb a little later, well, that’s not very dangerous.


so if chirac thinks it's okay for iran to have just one or two nuclear bombs, it must be.

chirac is nuts 50%
Chirac is right; we exaggerate the actual threat 40%
it's okay. everyone should be allowed to have 1 or 2 nuclear bombs 9%

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by Kev24 on Thu Feb 01, 07 5:34am [+]

Voted : chirac is nuts
Considering that Iran is believed to have nuclear missiles that can reach France I'd say this was a gaffe(not the first one comming out of his mouth I believe). He's a pillock though.
by seamus on Thu Feb 01, 07 6:00am [+]

a silly gaffe
by seamus on Thu Feb 01, 07 6:01am [+]

Voted : chirac is nuts
Neither Pakistan or India should have been allowed to have them either. Extremist Muslim Governments opposing the US or Israel, at the very least, should not be allowed the means to deliver them (I.E. Missiles). If Iran has nuclear warheads and means to deliver them, It almost gaurentees the destruction of the Israeli State and our troups in Iraq.
Of course Chiroc has little to worry about since they have little assets in the region.
by passiveson on Thu Feb 01, 07 6:22am [+]

Chirac is under the assumption that Iran only wants nuclear weapons as a defensive tool, making it less likely for foreign countries to attack it. I understand Chirac's train of though, but I disagree with it. There is too much wishful thinking and assumption making alone to conclude that Iran only wants nuclear weapons as defensive tool.
by xxxxxxxx on Thu Feb 01, 07 7:29am [+]

passiveson - Are you implying that the state of Israel and the occupied Iraq are American assets?
by xxxxxxxx on Thu Feb 01, 07 7:30am [+]

look at the ignorant choice "guest" user added in -- and we all know who he is. what an idiot.

oh sure, 1 or 2 bombs, each with the power to kill a million or more people is an exxagerated threat. you idiot. tell that to the million or more people that could die. loser.
by Kev24 on Thu Feb 01, 07 7:40am [+]

Voted : chirac is nuts
He is f****** nuts.
by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Thu Feb 01, 07 8:44am [+]

^Who is he?
by seamus on Thu Feb 01, 07 8:45am [+]

Voted : chirac is nuts
Now that's it's clearly that Iran will build nuclear weapons, and soon thanks to the UN, and will have long range missles to carry them, thanks to North Korea, france has preemptively surrendered and is trying to get in good with the mullahs so that maybe Paris won't be one of their first targets.

France always loses it's spine when dealing with muslims. Or germans, or russians, or chinese, or telemarketers or just about anything really.
by herzog on Thu Feb 01, 07 10:37am [+]

^ i wonder if they could hold their ground with a girl scout selling cookies? nah, probably not.
by Kev24 on Thu Feb 01, 07 12:09pm [+]

*passiveson - Are you implying that the state of Israel and the occupied Iraq are American assets?*

Don't be niave Socrates, of course not. That would be Mr. Bush.

*the destruction of the Israeli State and our troups in Iraq*, means Israel and America have assets in the region. American Soldier's lives, our sons and daughters, are American assets. The Israeli People's lives are Isreal's assets. Iraq and the Iraqi people's lives are Iraqi assets. Try not to spin on this.

I see little to none of any French assets in the region for Chirac to concern himself with.
by passiveson on Thu Feb 01, 07 12:51pm [+]

kev: depends on what cookies they're peddling. Thin mints, perhaps, caramel delites, I wouldn't count on it.
by herzog on Thu Feb 01, 07 9:33pm [+]

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